Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 19:03:51 -0500 From: Bob <suannschafer-AT-earthlink.net> Subject: Re: I: what is postmodernism? (fwd) >Here's an attempt I made to define postmodernism once. Corrections and >criticisms appreciated, should anyone here be so inclined. >>This word is used in different though related ways in different >>disciplines. It actually started off as a term that applied to an >>architectural style. WRONG. That's the myth. Or do you mean "widely applied"? An earlier reference may be found in an essay by Leo Steinberg in _Other Criteria_ I don't have the book here to be more exact. Someone else has traced earlier uses of the postmodern(ism/ity) >>One last point: we should not think of "postmodernism" as an exclusive >>possession of the "left." The term (in the sense that we are discussing it >>here) was first introduced by historians like Toynbee and sociologists like >>Daniel Bell. They *describe* the postmodern condition, but *deplore* it. Precisely my point above. But largely on the whole, very good, very useful.
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